Disney’s running low on fairy tales and classic stories to animate, so some of the more recent movies, like Brother Bear, Home on the Range and Bolt have relied on original stories. Its next movie, Wreck-It-Ralph, continues that concept by taking place inside a series of video games. It’s coming out to theaters on November more »

Swampy has to share the spotlight! Disney Interactive has just updated Where’s My Water?, the iOS and Android app that tasks players with helping an alligator get water to take a bath, even though the other alligators have redirected the water away from him. Now, players also have to help Cranky, one of the alligators more »

The Avengers are making their movie debut in 2012 but first they’ll be setting up headquarters on Facebook. Playdom is releasing Avengers Alliance, a social game challenging you to fight alongside Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Your character is an agent for SHIELD, Marvel’s super secret espionage organization.  To play, you collect Marvel heroes including Captain America more »

It looks like Mickey is going to be a video game star again. A Disney newsletter leak has revealed that Epic Mickey 2 is really a thing. Not only that, but it will actually be available sometime during Fall 2012 and be released not only on the Wii, but also on the PS3 and Xbox more »

Yesterday’s Amazon Appstore Free App of the Day was a complete bomb. Atari Greatest Hits Pro ended up making a lot of customers angry because they felt the app was just a storefront to buy more Atari games. Amazon has surely made up for that mishap today by making Where’s My Water? free for the more »

Black Friday and Cyber Monday have passed, but Amazon’s still trying to worm its way into your pocket. At least, it is if you have or know a young child who’s expecting a gift from you next month. Today the Video Game Deal of the Day section has mostly gone back to normal, with no random Lightning Deals showing up. Instead, the November 29, 2011 section is filled with cheap Disney games.

Now, with the exception of Epic Mickey, today’s games are definitely for kids only…

Disney-Pixar has certainly perfected the art of computer animation, especially when it comes to making otherwise inanimate and non-living objects talk, but some of the sweetness and storytelling fell to the side with this very Mater-centric movie.

I saw an advance screening last night of Cars 2 in a 3D theater with my four-year-old son. His initial response was, “Too much mean” (but more on that in the upcoming review).

Cars 2 includes much of the original Cars voice cast as well as a multitude of new vehicles and appropriate voices. This time around Team McQueen, as they are now known, travel around the world for international races against different vehicles to show the potential power of alternative fuel. After a comedy of errors, Mater is sucked into an international spy adventure that intertwines with the rest of the team’s adventures.

Without revealing too much, here’s a slightly enigmatic, purposefully partially vague bullet-point preview of Cars 2 to whet your whistle.

There’s another game you’ll want to keep an eye on at E3 2011, and it’s one you wouldn’t expect. It’s a multiplayer game from Disney called Disney Universe. How appropriate. Those characters up there? Those are the avatars in some of the costumes players can dress up in. Yes, they’re just adorable.

That’s one of the main points Disney seems to want to make with Disney Universe – that it’s adorable…

With the dozens of auctions that have recently occurred to help the people of Japan, it can be easy to forget that there are countless other worthy causes in the world. One is by Share Our Strength called the “No Kid Hungry” campaign, whose goal is to end childhood hunger by the year 2015. Actor Jeff Bridges is the national spokesman for the organization and has offered his TRON-inspired painting for auction to raise money for this cause.